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title: Army Is Your Career Path poster, PPB-333 (Vietnamese, Saigon)
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/army-is-your-career-path-ppb-333-vietnamese-saigon-1964/
description: A Vietnamese-language recruiting poster. A large stylised figure of a young man stands among photographs of army trades labelled driving, nursing.
section: Collection
---

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[![Army Is Your Career Path poster, PPB-333, 1964 US poster: A Vietnamese-language recruiting poster](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/army-is-your-career-path-ppb-333-vietnamese-saigon-1964.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/army-is-your-career-path-ppb-333-vietnamese-saigon-1964.jpg)

# Army Is Your Career Path poster, PPB-333 (Vietnamese, Saigon)

A Vietnamese-language recruiting poster. A large stylised figure of a young man stands among photographs of army trades labelled driving, nursing, communications, typing, shoemaking, printing and engine repair, under the headline that the army is the career path for 'you'. It promotes military service as vocational training. The tell is plain-folks and glittering-generalities: ordinary working men and a promise of a career stand in for the risks of service, which the sheet does not mention.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Plain folks](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/plain-folks/) [Glittering generalities](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/glittering-generalities/) [Bandwagon](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/bandwagon/)

## Text on the object

Original (Vietnamese) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
QUÂN ĐỘI LÀ CON ĐƯỜNG HƯỚNG NGHIỆP CỦA CÁC BẠN

LÁI XE
Y-TÁ
TRUYỀN TIN
ĐÁNH MÁY
ĐÓNG GIÀY
ẤN LOÁT
SỬA MÁY

4-901 (20)   F646QD
```

English translation (machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader)

```
THE ARMY IS THE CAREER PATH FOR YOU

DRIVING
NURSE
COMMUNICATIONS
TYPING
SHOEMAKING
PRINTING
ENGINE REPAIR
```

[← Voyage vers Mars poster, French edition (French poster distributed in Beirut)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/voyage-vers-mars-poster-french-1964/) [A Painter's View of His Country, No. 1 poster (Thai poster distributed in Bangkok) →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/painters-view-of-his-country-no-1-thai-1964/)

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